Sex and the Office, Ex Libris Gore Vidal

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[Ex Libris Gore Vidal] Brown, Helen Gurley. Sex and the Office. First Edition. 1964. Book is in very good condition; dust jacket is in very good minus condition—jacket shows rubbing. Book is stamped “From the library of GORE VIDAL” on the flyleaf.

NHL cannot quite decide whether this year of the #metoo makes a vintage book titled “Sex and the Office” apropos or radioactive. Perhaps it is radioactively apropos? The book offers tips on office romance and was written in the era when the sexual revolution had just begun, ignited by this same author’s earlier book Sex and the Single Girl. Yet these were not glory days for the single working girl, because male chauvinism had reached its Mad Men apogee. Who knows what Vidal himself would have thought of #metoo? Surely, he would dislike its meta application to him. The already-in-the-can biopic of his life is now in post-production limbo as result of the #metoo allegations against the actor Kevin Spacey who portrays Vidal in the film.

“Lunching with men is a chance to have dates in the daytime on the pretext of business.”